English

Noun

hacking run ‎(plural hacking runs)

1. (computing) A hacking session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours; sometimes an all-nighter.

   It'll take a hacking run to find the roots of such a Byzantine bug.

References

• Computer and Network Security in Small Libraries, Texas State Library, 2001, Glossary
• Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection, 2003, p. 423
• The Information Security Dictionary, 2004, p. 139
• The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice, 2005, p. 116
• Extending: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, 2008, p. 516